REST application design checklist

Joe Gregorio lays out a simple process for designing a REST application. I’ve been doing a lot of this kind of design and development lately, but I still found that this piece clarified my thinking. In a nutshell, Joe’s process is:

To build a good REST service you need to answer the following questions:

1. What are the URIs?

2. What’s the format?
3. What methods are supported at each URI?
4. What status codes could be returned?

I like the simple table with columns for Resource, Method, Representation, Status Codes - useful for a initial specification, and I’ve learned about how GET methods should be idempotent.

Thanks to Matt Mower for blogging this link